Is the "War on Terror" Coalition falling apart...?

[Flabbergasted]

Recently there has been a variety of articles of countries swaying from the Bush Party Line regarding the war on terror...Lots of Cooperation in the region


India:

India has made its position on Iran perfectly clear well before the deal was inked. True, the US ambassador has made noises about the undesirability of India strengthening its ties with Iran, but the foreign office has reiterated time and again that New Delhi will follow a pragmatic policy aimed at guarding its own interest. Messrs Karat and Co cannot have been unaware of the clauses in the deal that are now causing them so much anguish. Given the timing of the Left’s public expression of unhappiness, one would be excused for thinking that this has little to do with the deal per se. Rather, it is the Left in its avatar as prime opposition to the government, a role it has played ably since the UPA came to power.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=491bce79-54bd-46c2-bdc6-84a727c59469&&Headline=Hyde+and+seek

Afghanistan

Afghanistan at odds with US over Iran issue
5 Aug 2007, 2125 hrs IST,AFP

WASHINGTON: Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a key US ally, contradicted US assessments of the threat posed by Iran and insisted in an interview aired on Sunday that Tehran played a beneficial role in his region.

"So far, Iran has been a helper and a solution," Karzai told a private TV channel on the eve of a visit here on Sunday to meet with President George W Bush for talks on the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/The_United_States/Afghanistan_at_odds_with_US_over_Iran_issue/articleshow/2257734.cms

Pakistan

Pakistani President Withdraws From Peace Conference in Afghanistan
By VOA News
08 August 2007

Pervez Musharraf (file photo)
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has pulled out of a peace assembly in Afghanistan designed to unite local leaders in the fight against Taleban militants.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-08-08-voa40.cfm

Peace Pipeline

TEHRAN (PIN) – Minister of petroleum announced that a trilateral meeting between Iran, Pakistan, and India on the gas pipeline, which is to take Iran’s gas to India via Pakistan, known as peace pipeline, will be held next month.

http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=7/11/2007&Cat=9&Num=024

Iraq

Iraqi Leader Arrives in Iran
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA 08.08.07, 5:43 AM ET

TEHRAN, Iran - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki arrived in Iran on Wednesday for talks expected to focus on bilateral relations and overcoming "terrorism challenges" in his war-torn nation.

It was the Iraqi premier's second visit to Tehran in less than a year.

Syria

August 8, 2007 -- Iraqi envoys urged their country's neighbors today for genuine support as a regional meeting on deteriorating security in Iraq got under way in Damascus.
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/08/6FA009B0-8ED3-46C0-9F51-8F75F1996ADC.html

Turkey

Turkey to Invest in Iran Gas Sector

TEHRAN, Aug 7--Iran's Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh has announced Tuesday that Turkey will invest in Phase Three of South Pars gas field in the energy-rich Bushehr.

http://www.alalam.ir/english/en-NewsPage.asp?newsid=031100120070807232256

Iran

Iran to help Saudi Arabia build railway

TEHRAN, Aug. 8 (MNA) – Iran will help Saudi Arabia construct a 150km-long railway, a Trade Promotion Organization of Iran official reported here on Wednesday.

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=531911

[valerief]

1. War on Terror was designed only to last as long as the looters had

money to loot. Eventually the well runs dry.